Many libertarians are anarchists, not conservatives.
I saw an ex-FReeper who hailed himself as a libertarian bragging on another forum that he supported homosexual marriage for years on FR under that very guise that you’re advocating, that the government shouldn’t be in the business of defining marriage.
The problem is, by insisting that the government not define marriage, it IS defining marriage. What people don’t want is that the government define marriage as between one man and one woman at a time. So they insist that the government not define it, which means that the government by default DOES define it as anything goes.
The problem is, by insisting that the government not define marriage, it IS defining marriage. What people don’t want is that the government define marriage as between one man and one woman at a time. So they insist that the government not define it, which means that the government by default DOES define it as anything goes.Marriage is a dead institution. With divorce and serial marriage, marriage is no longer marriage, it's a cohabiting agreement.
The real key to this is to define a sane form of cohabitation and leave marriage to religious people who actually want to respect the institution.